Hi, I'm waiting to start and I'm scheduled for Saturday to start with the OSCP. What a long wait !!!

My questions: I know Bash Programming and I'm wondering, is it really needed to pick up Python to have no problems in the course? Can you easily succeed with making your scripts in bash instead of using Python ?

If needed and I get some confirmations from people here I'll just heads down Python until I get the docs on Saturday.

I've been on the OSCP course for a couple of weeks, so far I've only used a little python and mostly bash scripts. From what I've seen any python you need you should be able to find on Google so I wouldn't worry about it too much.

Was that's Robin's talk on "Breaking into Security"?? It was a good talk and long term learning a programming language is a good idea (I'm learning python) but for the OSCP course I don't think it's something to worry too much about.

Unless the material has changed since I did offsec, you will need python for some of the fuzzing/BO modules/challenges, so spend time going through the (good) introduction videos and lab notes.

Don't worry about it too much though, if you can understand the code enough to edit the examples to suit your purpose it should be sufficient. If you've already got a good handle on the bash side you should be fine.

I mainly program in Java and C.. when first looking at Python, seriously its ridiculously easy, at the same time it helps a lot. in other words, its a bonus! the only thing I am not sure about is bash. It would be great if someone could provide some links for that